Ted Kennedy

It is entirely inappropriate to continue blogging about the current set of issues that beset us without paying due deference to Ted Kennedy. In many of the debates that we are embroiled in from health care reform, to consumer protection in finance, and on to bank regulatory reform, Kennedy’s voice will be sorely missed. In the thirty years I have lived in this country no other politician comes close to his level of commitment and caring about regular people. It was those qualities that defined his brand of liberalism and which set him apart from his more meek and less empathetic colleagues. He had no peer in the Senate. There is no one like him there now. The disadvantaged all over America have lost a champion. He will be missed.